Autumn Symbolism Quotes

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.

Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.

I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.

What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?